Current work includes: a commission for the Royal Exchange, Manchester. She has also written the libretto for Flight, music by Jonathan Dove (Glyndebourne Opera); The Silent Twins libretto, which was set to music by Errollyn Wallen (Almeida Theatre, 2007); and The Day After (ENO, 2017).

Radio work includes: an adaptation of Life in the Tomb (BBC Radio 3, 2014); a serialisation of Peyton Place, Visitants (BBC Radio 4); and The Outlander (BBC Radio 5), which won the Writers’ Guild Award in 1992.